Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that the U.S. is "not far ahead" of China in the artificial intelligence race, and that the country needs a "nuanced strategy" to stay on higher ground. Huang has been walking a tense line between the two countries and has praised China's AI models, including DeepSeek , Alibaba , and Baidu . Although U.S. models remain more advanced, China's open-source models are "well ahead," Huang said. The CEO courted China in July with several trips following U.S.